Armando Benitez doesn’t like to be booed. He hates when fans insult him or his family members and he has but one request to the thousands of Benitez-haters residing at Shea Stadium: Give me a break!

In return, he gave no guarantee that he would be a good closer for them. Not if last night’s eighth-inning performance is any indication. The Mets beat the Expos 7-6, but not before Benitez served up a full-count, two-run, 390-foot homer to Jose Vidro that tied the game at 6-6 .

The homer was Vidro’s second of the night and the fifth Benitez allowed this year in relief. Except Benitez constantly seems to be changing the definition of relief to mean just the opposite for Mets fans.

“Sometimes a guy will talk to you like this, and he has no reason,” Benitez said of being heckled wherever he goes. “You disrespect the person. Why do you have to disrespect this person?

“You teach your kids this kind of language?” asked Benitez, who was credited with the win last night.

Benitez, the embattled Mets closer who could be a gas-station attendant after his baseball career is over with all the games he’s doused with kerosene, was asked if fans understand what players who are traded – as Robbie Alomar was yesterday – go through, as far as adapting to a new city, new team and new surroundings.

Instead, he issued a scathing commentary on bad parents bringing up vulgar baseball fans, some of which use words that he feels some aren’t old enough to hear spat at their favorite pitcher. Apparently, he doesn’t like people cursing at him.

“You can sit home and say whatever you want, but don’t come and say that kind of stuff because you can offend the family or the people behind you and you don’t know,” Benitez added.

Benitez, booed with gusto again as he jogged out from the bullpen with two outs in the eighth last night and a 6-4 lead in hand, said that fans at Yankee Stadium are worse than the boobirds at Shea, citing a battery throwing incident last weekend during the Subway Series.